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Web-CAT: automatically grading programming assignments

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Stephen H. Edwards,

Manuel A. Perez-QuinonesAuthors Info & Claims

ITiCSE '08: Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1384271.1384371

Published: 30 June 2008 Publication History

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This demonstration introduces participants to using Web-CAT, an open-source automated grading system. Web-CAT is customizable and extensible, allowing it to support a wide variety of programming languages and assessment strategies. Web-CAT is most well-known as the system that "grades students on how well they test their own code," with experimental evidence that it offers greater learning benefits than more traditional output-comparison grading. Participants will learn how to set up courses, prepare reference tests, set up assignments, and allow graders to manually grade for design.

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Edwards, S.H. Improving student performance by evaluating how well students test their own programs. J. Educational Resources in Computing, 3(3): 1--24, 2003.

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Edwards, S.H. Web-CAT Wiki. 2008. Available from: http://web-cat.org/

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June 2008

394 pages

ISBN:9781605580784

DOI:10.1145/1384271

Conference Chairs:
June Amillo
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
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Cary Laxer
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, USA
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Ernestina Menasalvas
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
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Alison Young
Unitec, New Zealand

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September 2008
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ISSN:0097-8418
DOI:10.1145/1597849
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